Movable stationery

s t a t i o n e fi y

Volume 5

Number 3

september

1997

Movable Struwwelpeters worldwide

Theo Geilen
The Netherlands

Next year will be the 1 50th anniversary of the
publication of first English translation of the famous
children's classic Struwwelpeter. The German book was
written by Heinrich Hoffmann in 1 844 as a Christmas
present for his three year old son Carl. It was first
published in Germany for Christmas 1845. Since that
time the German edition always remained in print and the
book has been translated in over thirty languages. Along
with Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, it appears to be the
most successful children's book ever, celebrated with not
less than two special museums in its hometown Frankfurt.

Though the book has not been as popular in the
English-speaking world as it has been in the German, it
nevertheless has been translated over seventeen times in
English and printed in hundreds of editions both in
England and the United States with titles as
Stru-wwelpeter, Shock-Headed Peter, or Slovenly Peter.
And with considerable success as well are the adaptations
of the ten stories of the original edition reprinted in
countless booklets known as Struwwelpetriades, some of
them by people like Mark Twain, Hilaire Belloc and
Roald Dahl. The illustrations have been redrawn by well-
known artists such as Louis Wain, Ernest Shepard and
Janet Graham-Johnstone. In 1974 the fame of
Struwwelpeter was used in a parody of the Watergate
scandal of the U.S. president in a political version: Tricky
Dick and his pals, as it was used before by the allies of
the First World War in Shock-Headed William, a parody
of the German Emperor William, and of the Second
W:orld War in StruMrwel-Hitler.

A copy of the English 1848 edition recently sold
at Christie's in London for over £4200 (ca.$6500 U.S.).
Good collections of English language editions and
adaptations are now on exhibit at the Kerlan Collection
of the University of Minnesota, the Allisson-Shelley
Collection of the Pennsylvania State University and the
Pierpont Morgan Library in New York.

Since I am not only studying the history of movable
books but also researching the printing history of the

(Dutch) Struwwelpeter, I thought it interesting, on the
occasion of the coming jubilee year, to explore the point
of contact of these two fields of my research. In
researching the history of the movable Struwwelpeter,
with an amazing success, I found no less than twenrv-five
movable editions worldwide.

The earliest edition of a movable Struwwelpeter know
to me, is the Stnwwelpeterbuch mil mechamk. Kleine
Gedichlen fiir Kinder. (Struwwelpeter book with
mechanics. Little poems for children), published in 1 863
in Berlin by Carl Ktihn and Sons. Since the first German
movable, Eduart Die's Hanswurst 's lustige Streiche, was
only published in 1862. and F.C. Hosch called himself
the inventor of these kinds of books in his book Kinder
Lust in Lebendigen Bildem (Children's pleasure in living
pictures) also published in 1863, it is surprising to find
our protagonist already amongst the incunables of the
movable books. In the book we see already in those earlv
days an unusual mixture of technics: pull-tabs to put the
figures in motion, pull-tabs showing different pictures
one after another, and a lift-the-flap used for an exercise
book showing the scrawl of the gifted child once the flap
is lifted.

The next example is dated about 1 870, Neues Lustiges
und Lebendiges Bilderbuch fur Artige Kinder ("New
amusing and living picture book for nice children), a pull-

continucd on page 2

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tab book with the factory mark of the Berlin Luxuspapier
Fabrik. The six movable pictures illustrate stories about
lying-Lotte, fidgety-Frizt, yodel-Seppel and others all
finally punished for their objectionable habits.

In 1885 the publishmg house of A. Capendu in Pans
brought out a peculiar book with the title Theatre
Guignol (Punch and Judy Theater): each of the four
pages has a very colorful pull-up, which, when opened,
consists of three cut-out cards, one behind the other,
picturing characters and props, the rear card picturing the
background scenery, like a toy-theater. On the back of the
rear scene is a printed play that can be performed in the
paper theater pulled up, telling the stories of Punch and
Judy, Cinderella, Circus Corvi and a story of an ogre. The
book has been bound as a leporellom so the four theaters
can be placed one beside the other, forming a beautiful
whole, extending to over one meter. The scene with the
ogre surely is the history of the inky boys known from
HoffrnannVs Struwwelpeter. shown also by the picture
of Struwwelpeter on the front cover of the book - here in
his French manifestation of Pierre I 'Ebouriffe. It is really
a beautiful book, and the paper engineering was used
about the same time for the more well-known Theatrical
picture book showing the same kinds of scenes of
Robinson Crusoe, Puss in Books, Little Red Riding
Hood, and Sleeping Beauty. The four scenes of Theatre
Guignol were published by Capendu a few years later,
about 1 890, as a series of four separate books under the
series name Librairie Enfamine Illustre (see Whitton,
p.71, with a picture) and the part with the inky boys was
then entitled Croquemitaine. Both the complete book
and the four separate scenes are very rare.

Still in the 1880s McLoughlin Bros, of New York
published a Naughty children transformation toy book
in which the naughty children from the title change into
animals corresponding with their vices when the book's
hinged flaps are raised: the chattenng girl Polly, for
example, becomes a parrot. In fact this book was

plagiarized from an 1 858 London Routledge title, not a
movable, The sad history of greedy Jem and all his little
brothers. The theme of children transforming in animals
because of their naughtiness is an Anglo-Saxon tradition
in children's books dating back to the eighteenth century
as can be read from the title of a book published in
London about 1 780 by Elizabeth Newberry: Vice in its
proper shape: or the wonderful and melancholy
transformation of several naughty masters and misses
into those contemptible animals which they most
resemble in disposition. McLoughlin just used the
techniques of the movable book to show the children the
transformation before their very eyes!

Raphael Tuck & Sons Slovenly Peter was evidently
very successful. Published with text by Graham Clifton
Bingham in about 1890 as part of Father Tuck's
"Mechanical" Series (see Haining, pp. 38-39) the cover
reads "designed in England. Printed in Bavaria." A
special attraction of this book is that with the pull of a
tab, two movements are effected: one in both of the
illustrations on the page. The success of this book can be
concluded from the fact that this title can rather often be
found in antiquarian bookstores or at auctions; there
probably were very many copies printed. The success
was also shown by several translations which appeared
about the same time in other countries of Europe. In
France it appeared as Jack I 'Incorrigible (Incorrigible
Jack) by Pierre Decourt and published by A. Capendu in
Paris - and was shortly thereafter reprinted without the
name of the publisher or publication place; in Germany
it appeared without a title, publisher or place, but surely
done by G. Loewensohn in Forth near Numberg; and in
Holland as Uit het leven va Piet de Smeerpoets (From the
life of Struwwelpeter) by Stella Mare and published at
Hilarius from Almelo.

At about the same time, but at least by 1 890 (I saw a
copy with an inscription dated 1 890), Frederick Wame &
Co. of London and New York published The Magic
Lantern Struwwelpeter, a book with fifteen examples of
naughty children. Included are the girl who played with
fire, the boy who wouldn't eat bread and milk, the
Destructive Twins, Conceited Connie, Tearful Tommy,
etc. They are pictured on eight movable pages: four
blades with a wheel embedded between two sheets to
give a transformation effect, the wheel working for both
sides. The pictures show a magic lantern performance
done for a row of children (in two different formations
pictured) and conducted by a real old-fashioned
"explicator." Where the pictures of the magic lantern are
suggested to be projected on the wall there is a circular
opening in the pages, showing by turning the wheel
successively the four scenes of the stones made movable.
Eight of the stories are adapted versions of the originals
by Heinrich Hoffmann, the other seven newly invented
ones are in the tradition of Hoffmann's. (cont. page 8 )

Joints for movable paper figures

Peter Schtlhle
Loxstedt, Germany

On my way to a pop-up book exhibition in Troisdorf
(near Cologne), I met with Mr. Falk Keuten, the author of
Mechanische spielobjekte und automaten (Mechanical
toys and automats). His book contains an interesting
chapter about paper mechanics and suggestions on how
to make your own moving pictures.

After a pleasant meal, he showed me his collection of
movable books and mechanical toys and the sketches of
moving pictures he had made recently. He also gave me
some copies of his sketches and an interesting paper
describing a new method for producing delicate joints for
paper figures. Here it is:

How to make nylon -thread joints
for movable paper figures

Falk Keuten

5. With a soldering iron carefully
press down the nylon thread
and gently melt it. Don't do
it too long because
then the layer Soldering

could become 'ron

too thin.

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6. Remove the joined parts including the nylon thread
from the wooden board. Turn the whole thing: Shorten
the nylon "axle" to 2 mm (See #4 ).

7. Carefully "melt" the nylon thread (See#5 ). The joint
is ready!

In past publications I recommended using the smallest
paper fasteners (peg-like; produced by Hansa, Nr 000) as
joint axles. Unfortunately these
are no longer produced due to lack of
demand. Even though the following
technique involves more work it is
still a good alternative since it allows
even finer mechanisms.

1 . Drill a hole (1 .5 mm) into a wooden board of 1 - 2 cm.

2. Gently pierce (1mm) the parts that make up the joint at
their marked pivots.

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Joint completed

Translated by V. Verspohl
© Falk Keuten, Bonn, 1 993

I hope, this description will be helpful to those who like
to make their own movable pictures.

Bruno Munari's Books Reprinted

3. Adjust the parts that are to be
joined with a pointed awl
above the drill hole of
the wooden board so
that a nylon thread
can be stuck through.

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4. Shorten the nylon thread so that 2 mm will remain
above the parts to be joined. It might be helpful to cut a
slot into a small piece of 2 mm-cardboard and use this as
a helping device to get the right length.

Theo Gielen
The Netherlands

Bruno Munari, the Italian painter, designer, graphic
artist, publicist, author of children's books and - as he
regards himself primarily - "collector of the visible,"
celebrated his 90th birthday this year. Although he
published most of his well-known novelty books in the
1 940's, 1 950's, and 1 960's, he actively promotes books
that give children a chance to look at their books and at
the world around them, rather than to just read them.

Munari pronounced his credo in an introduction to the
1995 trade catalog of the Italian packager La Coccinella
Editrice, a producer of all kinds of interactive children's
books Munari said:

Once books consisted only of a text, with a few
black-and-white illustrations, and communication
occurred only through literature; even the few

illustrations were not designed to transmit the verbal
communication, but only as an additional decoration.
The book was not considered as a communicating
object in itself but as a support for literature. Today,
on the contrary, we have at last realized that image
communicates and with it also color, shapes, type of
paper or cardboard, the size of typographic
characters or the very form of letters, and also
communicates all the editorial technology, i.e. hollow
punches, thickness, book binding — Today we have
finally reached the 'visual communication' and not
only visual but also tactile, thermic, plurisensorial.
What does a child do when he takes a cat in his
arms? He performs an action which interests all his
senses: he feels the softness of the fur, he spurs the
weight, sees the color of the cat, feels the warmth,
hears its voice, scents its smell

In nature these communications have always been
plurisensorial. It is clear that a child in front of a
book which occupies only one his sensorial
receptacles, is less interested than in front of a book
to touch, to manipulate, to look at, to transform, and
also to read as much as necessary to complete the
total information.

. . . Books with visual surprises, books which
transform themselves, books into which you can poke
your fingers, books suitable for children, at last!

The second reprint is Im Dunkel der Nacht / Nella
notte buia (In the dark of the night), first published in
1956. Munari plays a printing game in this book with
light and dark, again using different kinds of paper,
different sizes of the pages and die cuts.

As a homage to the maestro, two people from the
Zurich Museum of Design edited a kind of anthology of
the works by Munari: Die Luft sichtbar machen /Far
vedere I 'aria (The air made visible), a marvelous survey
in 490 color illustrations. It is really a feast for your eyes
and features the use of die-cuts and different sorts of
paper.

The three books, though priced as trade books, really
look like artists' books they are so well executed with
bright colors, gorgeous printing and nicely cloth bound.
Not only a mark of honor for an artist on his 90th birthday
but also a gift for anyone loving (movable) books.

Bruno Munari. Im Nebel von Mai land / Nella nebbia de
M ilano. Verlag Lars Muller, Baden/Switzerland, 1 996.
ISBN: 3-907044-06-2. 56 pages. 215 x 215 mm. Sfr.
38.00 (ca. $35.00).

Bruno Munari. Im Dunkel der Nacht / Nella nolle buia.
Verlag Lars Muller, Baden/Switzerland, 1 996. ISBN: 3-
907044-07-x. 60 pages. 230 x 160 mm. Sfr. 38.00 (ca.
$35.00).

Several of his books, mostly constructed with lift-the-
flaps, pages of different sizes, die-cuts, and the use of all
kinds of paper and cardboard, were published in English
language editions. They appeared in the second half of the
1940s as "Bruno Books" by the Harvill Press in London
and at the end of the 1950s by World Publishing
Company in Cleveland and New York. A couple of them
were reprinted in 1980 by Collins, New York and
London

The Swiss firm Verlag Lars Muller has now reprinted
limited editions of two of the highlights of Munari 's
works. Im Nebel von Kiailand / Nella neddia de Milano
(The circus in the mist) is seen as the best of his books.
Through translucent tracing-paper pages, scenes of a
town in the mist are viewed. The tracing paper has been
printed with people, nding buses and bicycles on both the
front and back of the paper, suggesting the buses and
tracks enveloped in the dense fog of Milano. When the
pages are turned one by one, the mist gradually lifts and
we arrive at a circus tent made up of colored, printed
pages with cut-out windows looking through a picture on
the following page. This book, first published in 1 968, is
pictured extensively in Tadashi Yokoyama's The best of
3-D books, pages 1 00- 1 06 - no other books got so many
pages'

Claude Lichtenstein and Alfredo Haberli (eds.). Die Luft
sichtbar machen / Far vedere l'aria. Ein visuelles
Lesebuch zu Bruno Munari. Verlag Lars Muller,
Baden/Switzerland, n.d. ISBN: 3-90700-94-1. 320
pages. 240 x 160 mm. Sfr. 68.00 (ca. $60.00).

The address of the publisher: Verlag Lars Muller, P.O.
Box 912, CH-5401 Baden, Switzerland. Telephone: 056-
2822700. Fax: 056-2822701. Email:

larsmullerbooks(ffiaccess.ch The publisher has
distributors in the United States and in the United
Kingdom.

Pop-up! Pop-up!

Albert Tillman has recently published Pop-up! Pop-
up! Pop-up books: Their history, how to collect them
and how much they re worth. It is a 58-page publication
describing the production, collecting, maintenance, and
selling of pop-ups. Albert also identifies his own
selections as "The best 100 pop-up books," "The 100
best pop-up pictures," and lists titles in other categories.
Pop-up! Pop-up! is available from Whalestooth Farm,
HC 1 Box 82, Olga, Washington 98279. The price of
$9.95 includes shipping and handling.

POP»UP PUZZLE #2

1 Illustrator and paper engineer Schenk
4 Shen Rodie & Korky Paul's " _ Wolf"
(1993)

7 Livre , pop-up in Paris

1 2 Movable collectible: 2 wds.

14 Grinder

1 5 Awkward

16 "Jack the Giant _" (1 860) From
Ward and Lock

17 Dutch Painter Hieronymous (1460-
1516)

18 CSNY's 1970 album," Deja_"

19 Obie-Wan , Skywalker's mentor

22 Shouting match

25 Kees Moerbeek's " _ No, Santa!"
(1991)

27 The Horse from Christos Kondeatis

& Sara Maitland's " Pandora's Box"
(1995)

28 Keith Moseley's "_ Big Bear" (1988)

29 Running clue

31 Nick and Patrick: abbr.

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33 "_ Baba and the Forty Thieves"
(1 950), a Peepshow Book from
Houghton Mifflin Co.

34 Cecil B. DeMille's " Commandments"

(1923 and 1956): 2 wds.

36 Crichton's hospital drama series

37 Bachman-Turner Overdrive"s #1 hit,
"You Ain't Seen Nothin' _" (1 974)

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Robert Crowther's "Pop-Up 6
Olympics" (1996)

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(1 992), a Slideond-See Book 8

49 Cherry red

50 Mr. Matisse (1869-1954) 9

51 "Behind the _ in Fairyland" (1891) 10
from Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd. 1 1

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53 Graphics Int'Ps "products" in the 16
early 60's 18

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cnni^ 21

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2 U2 leader

3 Samuel Gabriel Sons & Co. paper toy 23
"Ten Different Kittens and Puppies with 24
Moving __, What a Surprise!" (area 1910) 25

Portland, Maine publisher Thomas Bird

Illustrator Mckie of "The Many Mice of

Mr. Brice" (1973)

Leslie Sarah McGuire's pseudonym:

inits.

"_ Blue", 1 929 song: 2 wds.

Lon , Khmer Republic President

(1972-75)

Under the weather

Miss West

Slip up

"_ the Future" trilogy (1985-90): 2 wds.

Running clue

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They don't keep their appointments:

hyph. wd.

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Illustrator Barrett of "The Pop-Up White

House" (1983)

First word of a fairy tale

Animator and illustrator Julian

A 3 rating in "Movable Reviews"

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Peter NewelPs "The _ Book" (1 908)
Ron Van Der Meer's "The Math _" (1 994)
Pop-up "commercial" in a magazine,
for example

Roger Hargreave's "Mr. Funny and
the PopJJp _ Show" (1983)
Glue for your six-year old "paper
engineer"

White Heat's James Roger

Unchanged: 2 wds.
Olin or Home
Running clue

"Tyrannosaurus ", one of Dick

Dudley's Dinobabies (1989)
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"Early Humans: A Prehistoric World"

(1988)

Relatives

Ruminated stuff

2nd Movable Book Society

Conference state

The 2nd Conference of The
Movable book society

APRIL 30 TO MAY 2, 1998
Los Angeles, California

Pop-up and Movable Cards

Two new members of The Movable Book Society
produce greeting cards. Joyce Aysta is the founder of Live
Your Dreams Designs which produces ongami
architecture note cards. Each card has a white pop-up
with colorful nee paper applied to the exterior The cards
are available at shops and museums throughout the U.S.
For more information contact Live Your Dreams
Designs, 2518 A. Etiwan Ave., Charleston, South
Carolina 28414.

Mimi Sheiner produces interactive greeting cards.
Many of them are die-cut, with moving parts. Many are
funny A few are die-cut and funny For more information
contact Mimi at Chronogram, 2422 Hilgard Ave.,
Berkeley, California 94709 or chronogram@msn.com.

Book Happenings

Barbara Lazarus Metz and John Railings are curating
"Wonderous Worlds: Pop-ups and Movable Books" an
exhibit at Columbia College Chicago Center for Book
and Paper Arts from November 7 - December 1 9, 1 997.
John will speak on "Books that Spring to Life" on
November 14 and Barbara will present a workshop
"Pop-ups, Pop-ups, Pop-ups" November 1 5 and 1 6. For
more information call the Center at 3 1 2-43 1 -86 1 2.

The 26th Michigan Antiquarian Book & Paper Show
will be held October 5 from 9:30-5:00 at the New
Lansing Center, Lansing, Michigan. For more information
call 517-332-01 12.

"Hey . . What's new? Tradition and innovation in the
Book Arts" is the third annual New Jersey Book Arts
Symposium. The day-long program will feature the work
of six diverse and accomplished book artists. The
morning program will feature presentations by artists and
the afternoon will be a panel discussion. At the
conclusion of the afternoon discussions, all will be invited
to share one piece of their own work. The participants
are: Earl B. Lewis, painter and children's book illustrator;
Lois Morrison, book artist, Jamie Kamph, bookbinder;
Anna Pinto, calligrapher; Sue Gosin, papermaker, Eileen
Fou, printmaker, lithographer, Lowell Bodger, letterpress
printer; Robert Mahon, photographer, book artist; and
Hedi Kyle, conservator, book artist. Graphic artist
Barbara Henry will demonstrate woodblock pnnting.

The registration fee is $25.00. Lunch is not
included. For more information call 201-648-5223 or
register via the web at:
<http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~mjoseph/symp3.htm>

Questions and Answers

Q. What is the best way to re-glue a support tab that has

come loose?

Janet Ervin
Lancaster, California

Q. What is the best way to dispose of a valuable, large
collection of pop-up and action books (other than by sale
to a dealer). I would like it to go to a library, university,
or museum. Who should be contacted? What procedures
are followed?

MBS Member/ Respond to
Movable Stationery editor

Q. There are so many ways to shelve pop-up books.

What have others found is the best way?

Eleanor Heldrick
Baltimore, Maryland

A. My own collection has been shelved many different
ways as it has grown. The older and most valuable books
are shelved together behind glass in cases. Since I have
a large number of Christmas books, they are all shelved
together. But, the contemporary books are all shelved by
size. I have found I can fit more books on open shelves by
arranging them by height. Each of the shelves is
numbered and each of the books has a shelf number. (I
am a librarian, after all!)

Ann Montanaro

East Brunswick, New Jersey

ROBERT SAB U DA

1 W - Awful

2 "fr - POOR

3 ft - OK

4 ■& - Good

5 ■& - Superb

plant was gambling punch boards. Somehow Blue
Ribbon Books of New York came to the elder Voges
with a new idea for children's books they had just
patented - the "Pop-Up" book. Young Fred, fresh out of
Emmington High School was intrigued with the concept.
In short order he produced mock ups of the earlier titles,
his father's shop got the work and Fred did the paper
engineering on all the "pop-up" titles as well as the
Mickey Mouse and Wizard of Oz "Waddle Books."

Robert Sabuda's reviews will return in the next issue.
He has just completed a new pop-up book and is moving
to a new studio.

From Illustrated radio premium catalog and price
guide. By Tom Tumbusch. Dayton, Ohio, Tomart
Publications, 1 989. page 1 1 .

More on Blue Ribbon Pop-ups

Note: Anne Williams supplied this information to
supplement "Blue Ribbon Pop-ups" which appeared in
the September, 1 996 issue.

Premiums were usually approved for manufacture
after the first several ads and commercials had run. The
initial response was used to gauge the size of the
production run. The majority of metal premiums were
manufactured in Massachusetts and shipped to Battle
Creek or the greater Minneapolis, Chicago, or St. Louis
areas for fulfillment. . .

The Einson-Freeman Company of Long Island City
produced paper premiums of all types throughout the 30's
and 40's. Sam Gold turned to them often for production
of masks, games, punch out kits and other paper
premiums. Most were designed by Fred Voges and Wally
Wiest. When World War II came along the materials
shortage virtually killed metal premiums and the use of
paper premiums increased. In 1942 Sam Gold joined
Einson-Freeman as Vice-President.

All indications suggest Gold maintained his offices in
Chicago. Material from the Voges estate relates Fred
worked from Gold in Chicago during frus period . . . and
until 1946 when he and Weist formed their own
company.

Some of the rarest of all premiums are punch-out and
other paper premiums. A lion's share of these were
created by Voges and Weist. Voges was the paper
engineer - one of the most creative to come along since
the oriental origami masters. Wally Weist was a creative
artist in his own right, but was an accomplished "swipe"
artist as well. He was equally at home copying a
Rembrandt in oils as he was at reproducing the styles of
Disney or Milt Caniff on premiums.

Presently more is known of Fred Voges. The saga
began at his father's Chicago paperboard printing and die
cutting shop in the early 30's. The major product at the

[Fred Voges was also both the author and animator of
Fairy tale magical picture book published by Dyco
Institute of Philadelphia in 1 948. The cover describes the
book as having "a magic wand that brings characters to
life in realistic action1"]

For Sale

Eccentricities. Twenty-five or more pop-up books. At:
<http://www.caseweb.com/odd/popups.htm>

Michel Johvet

1 30 S 202nd St.

Des Moines, Washington 98198

Funny jungleland. W.K. Kellog, 1909
Steven Workman
14013 Cutler
Benton, Illinois 628 12

Little Red Riding Hood. Blue Ribbon, 1934.

Tim Tyler, 1935.

Christmas time in action, 1 949.

Daily Express, 1930.

Gayla Pauley

208 Moultne

Mattoon. Illinois 6 1938

Pop-ups for Grown-Ups

"Pop-ups for Grown-ups: 20th Century books from
the collections of Ann Montanaro and Robert Sabuda" is
an exhibit on view at Pratt Institute Library in Brooklyn,
New York through October 3, 1997. The exhibit fills
display cases on three floors of the century-old library and
features over 60 books and additional greeting cards,
postcards, business cards, and advertising circulars and
inserts. The cases are organized by topics: performing
arts, medical, historical figures, travel, holidays, sex and
more. To visit the exhibition, contact the library for hours
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The last page of the book has: "Designed in England and
Printed by G. Loewensohn at Forth Bavaria." The eight
movable pages from this book were used, together with
newly illustrated text-pages, for a Russian edition with
the title Steka Rastrepka (Slovenly little Stephan)
published in 1 898 in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

With the same title of The Magic Lantern
Struwwelpeter, Wame and Co. published in 1896 a
simplified edition of the earlier book. The movable part
was reduced to only one wheel, built in the front cover of
the book and only showing four pictures of the girl who
played with fire; the number of stories included was also
reduced to twelve. From this edition appeared a Dutch
edition with the literally translated title De
Tooverlantaarn Struwelpeter by a certain Rose (an
unsolved pseudonym), published in 1897 by Campagne
& Zoon in Amsterdam.

At the latest in 1900, but without a date, the eight
pages with their embedded wheels known from the 1 890
edition, were used once more by Warne & Co. for a third
version with the title The magic lantern Struwwelpeter.
Printed without text this time, the front cover reads
"Printed and made in Bavaria." A copy of this edition
(shown on page 1) was offered recently in Catalog 37
(Winter, 1 997), nr. 263, by Jo Ann Reisler Ltd. This third
version is also known in a Dutch version with the title De
Tooverlantaarn (The magic lantern), published by the
firm of J. Vlieger in Amsterdam about 1 900. Since there
is no text it was presumably accompanied by a smaller
textbook from which the stories could be read, showing
the subsequent pictures from the movable plates to the
children. But copies of this edition are extremely scarce,
as are all these Wame editions. They are known to me, all
the three of them, in just one copy.

In 1 893 Mane Beck, at that time a well-known German
children's book writer, compiled a pull-tab movable Der
lehendige Stniwwelppter und andere drollige
Geschichten fur kinder von 3 bis 8 Jahren (The living
Struwwelpeter and other funny stories for children from
3 to 8 years old) with eight stories and eight movable
pictures by Margarete Pfeifer Printed and published by
Wilheld Dils from Wesel German. The company was
very active with Struwwelpeter at that tune as their
catalog of 1 893 shows over a dozen adaptations but this
one is the only movable.

Heinrich Hoffmann died in September 1894. In
1895, following right after his death, the most well-
known movable in this field appeared: Gustav Weises
lebendiger Struwwelpeter (Gustav Weises living
Struwwelpeter) published by the firm of G. Weise in
Stuttgart The mechanics were by "El. Em." which stands
for Lothar Meggendorfer, the unrivaled master of the
movable book. It is unclear if the publication of this book
was to be linked with the death of Hoffmann or with the

50th anniversary of the first appearance of this German
original. Certain however, is the fact that this book is a
highlight in this enumeration of movable Struwwelpeter
editions, as all Meggendorfer books are highlights in the
field of movable books because of their clever mechanics
but surely also because of their humorous caricature-like
illustrations. There is no need to explain to explain that to
readership interested in movable books. . . Together with
the English edition of this book: Dean's living
Struwwelpeter, in 1896, simultaneously published by
Dean & Son in London and by International Art
Publishing Co., Ltd. in New York, Philadelphia and
Chicago, this book is highly sought after not only by
collectors of movable books but also by collectors of
Struwwelpeter. The copy in the Marjorie Moon
Collection sold at Christie's in 1 994 to a German private
collector of Struwwelpeters for the highest price of all the
movable books.

Lesser known, however, is the fact that three of the
pictures of this Struwwelpeterbook were redrawn by
Meggendorfer and reused in 1 9 1 0 - though simplified and
with other story titles - for his book Lustiges
Ziehbilderhuch (Funny pull-tab book), also published at
Gustav Weise in Stuttgart. It is also known in an Italian
translation as Pupazi vive e allegri published at Ulrico
Hoepli in Milano, without a date but surely before the
First World War.

It is not until 1 930 that again we find "The Famous
Picturebook" as a movable book. (Several Dutch editions
of Struwwelpeter between 1910 and 1930 just were
titles.) In 1 930 we see the Struwwelpeter - and only him
of all the Hoffmann figures - in the mix-and-match book
by Walter Trier: Mdnnlein, Mdnnlein wandle dich: 8192
verschiedene Mdnnlein. Fiir Kinder von 5-75 und
daruber (Little man, little man transform you: 8129
different little men. For children from 5-75 and over). It
was published by J.F. Schreiber in Esslingen, Germany.
By turning the pages, divided in three parts, we are able
to cive Stru^^-vel^eter a different head or ctr"*** body
and/or other legs The title later appeared at Pestalozzi-
Verlag in Erlangen, Germany and also, in 1944, in a
largely altered version at Atrium Press in London as 8192
Quite crazy people in one book, in which we again find
Struwwelpeter on page 26.

Without publisher, place, or date was published Der
Stnrwwelpeter. L'ngekiirzte Ausgabe, a picture book with
shaped Struwwelpeter-head and movable eyes - an
eyebook. Since the title is in "SOtterlin" writing, a strange
almost unreadable and "slovenly" - looking way of
lettering, looking like handwriting and used in Germany
in the 1920s and until the later half of the 1930s, we will
have to date this edition about 1 930.

A Dutch edition with the title Piet de Smeerpoes, also
without publisher, etc. probably dates from the same
time. It is remarkable, however, to see the pictures of
some of the stories, though identical to the German ones,
having been printed here as seen in a mirror: left and
right have been exchanged!

The only three-dimensional edition of a Struwwelpeter
known to me was published in 1 940 in the Schreiber-
series of Stehaufbilderbucher (Stand-up picturebooks) in
which we find Der lebende Struwwelpeter, oder lustige
Geschichten und drollige Bilderfur Kinder von 3-6
Jahren von Heinrich Hoffmann nach der Frankfurter
Originalausgabe. (The living Struwwelpeter, or merry
stories and funny pictures for children from 3-6 years old
by Heinrich Hoffmann, after the Frankfurter original
edition). In six fan-folded pop-ups we see here for the
very first time in three-dimension the well- known figures
from Hoffmann's classic. Unfortunately this is the rarest
number of the series, due to the start of the Second World
War.

I have been unable to trace the Spanish translation of
this book although I have seen several other titles from
the series of Spanish editions, published as Album relieve
at Editoria Selva in Barcelona. Nor have I been able to
trace the South African translation where other parts of
the series are known as Van Schaik se beweegbare
prenteboeke (movable picture books at Van Schaik).

That is my description of movable Struwwelpeter as I
have found until now. Overlooking the information
available, I would like to make two more remarks. The
first things that strikes me is that most of the editions date
between 1885 and 1910, the era known as the First
Golden Age of Movable Books. That is also an era that
shows a very large number of Struwwelpeter editions,
imitations, and parodies. The reason why is unclear; the
history of the reception of this children's class is still
unexplored - in contrast with that of Carroll's Alice in
Wonderland. Also striking is that the history of the
movable Struwwelpeter appears to end in 1 940 although
the number of non-movable editions and the number of
movable books and pop-ups since that time are countless.

Notable also is the fact that I didn't see any movable
edition at all of the Struwwelpeter as done by Heinrich
Hoffmann. Although many editions do have the name of
the dirty boy with the long fingernails in their title, all of
them are just adaptations - at their best with some of the
Hoffmann stories included. This is striking when one
realizes how much movement there is in the pictures of
the Hoffmann original, and in their stories as well, since
almost every sentence of the ten stories could easily be
brought to motion. The figures could pop-up, holograms
could be used to see "The girl who played with fire,"
scratch-and-sniffs to smell the sulphur of the matches the
girl was told not to touch, etc. Music could be added
through a sound chip. (The stories were set to music by

Hussla as early as 1876 and recently a Struwwelpeter
musical toured in Germany.) With the techniques now
available it wouldn't be a problem to produce a movable
coffee table Struwwelpeter. But, it appears this is "not the
right time" for such an edition. Some of the leading
publishing houses in Germany gave their reaction to
Keith Moseley to whom I suggested such an edition for
the German jubilee years, 1994-1995. But maybe it will
prove to be a good idea for the 1998 jubilee year in
England, or for the jubilee in the United State. In 1 999 it
will be 150 years ago since the first American edition
appeared at C. Town of New York as Slovenly Peter: or
pleasant stories and funny pictures. Translated from the
German, a censored first edition since it left out one of
the best stories of the ten: "The story of the thumb
sucker."

We will be curious to see which paper engineer or
packager will be daring enough to do a modem movable
Peter. Or at least, safely, a reprint of one of the old ones
listed above. For now we would be very pleased to be
informed of other movables on this theme not described
in this article.

New Publications

The following titles have been identified from pre-
publication publicity, publisher's catalogs, or adver-
ising. All titles include pop-ups unless otherwise
specified.

The amazing pull-out pop-up body in a book By
David Hawcock. Dorling Kindersley, August, 1997.
$19.95. 0-789-42052-x.

Angels: A pop-up book. Andrews & McMeel. October,

1997. l'/2 x2". 12 pages. $3.95.

0-8362-3461-6.

Also: Happy Birthday! 0-8362-2953-3.

Golf. 0-8362-2956-8. Merry Christmas.

0-8362-3642-4. Fathers. 0-8362-3643-2.
For my daughter. 0-8362-3644-0. For my friend.
0-8362-3645-9. Grandmothers. 0-8362-3646-7.
Thankyou. 0-8362-3647-5.

Ben 's box: A pop-up fantasy. By Michael Foreman.
Andrews & McMeel. September, 1997. $15.95.
1-8884-4342-1.

Bon voyage! Running Press Miniature Edition.

September, 1997. 2% x VA. 14 pages. $4.95.

0-7642-0106-0.

Also: Girlfriends. 0-7624-0107-9.

Stressed. 0-7624-0108-7.

Thinking of you. 0-7624-0109-5.

Cats: Quips and quotes on feline friends. Main Street

Editions Pop-up Books. Fall, 1997. Andrews &

McMeel. 5 x 6'/= $6.95. 0-8362-2675-5

Also: Freshwater fishing: Timeless quotes on angling.

0-8362-2676-3.

Gardens: A bouquet of thoughts. 0-8362-2674-7.

Chuck Murphy 's alphabet magic, [tab-operated
plates]. Little Simon. $14.95 9" x 7". 0-689-81286-8.

Chuck Murphy 's color surprises: A pop-up book.
Little Simon. September, 1997. 10 pages. $12.95.
0-689-81504-2.

Desmond the dog. By Nick Denchfield Harcourt
Brace. September, 1997. $12.95. 0-152-01340-7.

A dog 's world: A picture frame pop-up quote book.

Andrews & McMeel. September, 1997. $7.95.

1 -8884-43 12-x.

Also: Head over heels: A picture frame pop-up quote

book. Piggy Toes Press. 1 -8884-43 1 0-3

Missing you: A picture frame pop-up quote book.

Piggy Toes Press. 1 -8884-43 11-1

Whiskers & kisses: A picture frame pop-up quote

book. Andrews & McMeel. 1-8884-4313-8.

Don 7 be surprised! Dial. September, 1 997. $ 1 3.99. 0-
8037-2286-6.

Don 't do that! By Mick Inkpen. Piggy Toes Press.
September 1997. 1-8884-4353-7. $4.95.
Also: Little spotty things 1-8884-4355-3.
Say "Aaah! "1-8884-4356-1.

The first Christmas: A Bible story book with pop-up
blocks. Thomas Nelson. September, 1997. $9.99.
0-8499-1482-5.

/ can too: An Elmer pop-up book. By David McKee.
Lothrop Lee & Shepard. September, 1997. $15.95.
0-6881-5547-2

In the spooky fun house: A pop-up book (The
Berenstain Bears). By Stan and Jan Berenstain
Inchworm Press. September, 1997. $5.95.
1-5771-9256-7.

Little polar bear mini pop-up book By Hand De Beer.
North South Books. September, 1997. $7.95.
1-5585-71 1-x

Little space scout 's space case. Chronicle. September,
1997. $12.95. 18 pages. 0-81 18-1 758-v

My nose is a hose. McClanahan. $6.99. 9x76 pages.
1-562-93930-0.

My pop-up surprise 12 3. By Robert Crowther.
Orchard. September, 1997. 12 pages. $16.95.

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0-531-30039-0.

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My pop-up surprise abc. By Robert Crowther.
Orchard. September, 1997. 14 pages. $16.95.

0-531-30038-2.

Nightmare hotel: Danger: Spooky pop-up book. By
Alex Henry. Envision Publishing September, 1997.
$15.95. 1-8906-3302-x.

Noah and the ark: A Bible story with pop-up blocks.
Thomas Nelson. $9.99. September, 1997.
0-8499-1483-3.

Old MacDonald's pop-up farm. Barron's. September,
1997. 8 V. x 9 Va. 12 pages. With sound chip. $13.95.
0-7641-5055-3.

Play and count in Patch 's house Harcourt Brace.
October. 1 997. 10 14 x 6 %. Carousel book. $ 1 1 .95.
0-15-201665-1.

Polar bears. A Dial Nature Notebook Pop-up. Dial
Books for Young Readers. $4.99. 0-803-7 1 277-4.

Pooh 's enchanted place. Dutton. October, 1997. 24
pages. $18.95. 0-525-45832-8.

Stellaluna: Pop-up book and mobile. By Janell
Cannon. Harcourt Brace. September, 1 997. 10 V* x 9.
$18.95.0-152-01530-2.

Six brave explorers: A pop-up book. By Carla Dijs and
Kees Moerbeek. Andrews & McMeel September,
1997. $9.95. 1-8884-4344-8.

Teddy 's Christmas: a pop-up book with mini
Christmas cards. By Pete Bowman. Hyperion.
December. 1997.0-786-80345-2.

There 's a bug in my mug. McC!
6 pages. 1-562-93931-9

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Tractor trouble. By Steve Augarde. Lodestar Books.
September, 1997. $14.99. 0-525-67561-2.

A Victorian Christmas: 3-dimensional pop-up village
and holiday countdown calendar. Julv, 1997.
Andrews & McMeel. $14.95. 0836275098

What am I? Creepy Crawlies. Barrens. $6.95.
0-7641-5029-4.

Also: What am I? Egg surprise 0-764 I -5028-6.
What am I? Jumpers. 0-764 1 -5027-8.
What am I? Seashore. 0-764 1 -5025- 1 .

When the wild pirates go sailing: A pop-up adventure
book. By Carla Djis and Kees Moerbeek. Andrews &
McMeei. .September. 1997. $9.95 I -8884-4343-X.